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Count of monte cristo the6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Edmond recreates himself into the titular count after escaping from prison, and begins to revenge himself on the people who sent (and kept) him in prison. He meets a priest (a fellow convict) who educates him, and bequeaths him with the location of a great treasure. ![]() ![]() Edmond Dantes is a poor sailor on the cusp of achieving everything (captaincy, financial security, marriage) when he's arrested on the testimony of his jealous rivals, and sent to rot in a prison for 14 years. So, The Count of Monte Cristo is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas, a story of vengeance set against the Restoration Periods (there were two of them) in France (the history's actually rather interesting in its own way, but that's neither here or there). But I did treat the story a trifle more critically. Of course, Alexandre Dumas was a good writer, while Sidney Sheldon was an American hack, so perhaps that's why I actually persisted with The Count, and didn't toss it away. But this time, partway through Edmond Dantes' imprisonment, I was uncomfortably reminded of a Sidney Sheldon novel that I'd tossed halfway across the room which had also had the protagonist unjustly imprisoned before they'd escaped and then set off on a roaring rampage of revenge after completely changing who they were. I'd read The Count of Monte Cristo before, though I suspect it may have been an abridged version. ![]()
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